Forward this page to a colleague

I want user’s to be able to forward a specific page/section of my site to a friend/colleague when they see fit, via a simple html or graphic link…

EXAMPLE: http://www.charlwood.com/smart/smarttable/

I have created my form, it’s just the recipients field I am unsure of what to do to make this ‘forward page’ function correctly.

I assume once and if this is implemented it can be used to mail/forward to multiple recipients as the example above shoes.

Any help would be great.

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Can anyone offer any ideas?

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If you build a server-side form to do this, it’s quite simple to compose an e-mail message and send it from the server. It’s not quite a slam-dunk, though, because you then have to worry about spam filters, sendmail configuration on your server, privacy issues (and laws) etc.

If you google for “tell a friend web widget”, you will come up with something like this: http://www.refer-a-buddy.com/ which is a paid service (never tried it) that should hopefully take some of the heartache away (for a fee).

If you want to do the low-fi way, then you can make a link that opens a new e-mail on the visitor’s computer (not guaranteed to work in all cases) with a pre-written subject line. You can get the basics for this by visiting my Mailto-o-matic service: http://freewaypro.com/mailto

Attach such a link to a button on your page, and you could get a simple way to do the feature. This has the added benefit that the message actually comes from the person who’s sending it, and there are no privacy issues because they aren’t posting their own or their friends’ e-mail addresses to your server.

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You may want to have your web host look at that page as it looks a lot
like someone has injected a block of code at the foot of the page.
After the end of the HTML block is a bunch of JavaScript that tries to
redirect me to a Russian site. Safari then warns me that the site
could contain malware.
Talk to your host, change your passwords and re-upload a fresh copy of
your site.
Regards,
Tim.

On 22 Mar 2010, at 14:41, Mr worm wrote:

EXAMPLE: http://www.charlwood.com/smart/smarttable/

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On 8 Apr 2010, 3:44 pm, Tim Plumb wrote:

You may want to have your web host look at that page as it looks a lot
like someone has injected a block of code at the foot of the page.
After the end of the HTML block is a bunch of JavaScript that tries to
redirect me to a Russian site. Safari then warns me that the site
could contain malware.
Talk to your host, change your passwords and re-upload a fresh copy of
your site.
Regards,
Tim.

Thank you both for your reply’s…

However, I may not have been very clear, but the example I posted originally is not mine Tim, but what I would like to achieve.

Is it possible to re-create this type of form form in freeway with this functionality that maintains the look and feel of your site, rather than a pop up or external form???

Possible via page-form setup- post form etc…?

Its just way more professional looking. As Walt said would this have to be done server side, if so is this differcuilt as I have no idea Walt. Any advice would be much appreciated.

At the same time when using Walts Mail-o-matic service, can the script the form produces be edited in a way which makes the body text that will be produced have paragraph breaks and live links?

My text is here:

mailto:my-email-address?Subject=Thought%20you%20may%20be%20interested&Body=Here%20is%20a%20Marketing%20and%20Design%20Agency%20I%20thought%20you%20may%20be%20interested%20in%3A%20http%3A%2F%2Fwww.my-website.com


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Certainly, you can have line-breaks and links in the Mailto-o-matic – that’s exactly what it was made to do. Just write a plain-text message with the “layout” you want. Mailto-o-matic encodes all characters, including the line-break, so you can have a fairly complex text layout with tabs and bulleted lists if you like, too.

As far as the server side goes, the form is the easy part. Sending the mail is even pretty straightforward, as long as your hosting provider doesn’t rhyme with GoDaddy or run on Windows. The harder part is getting your server to send the resulting message in such a manner as to convince the recipient that it isn’t spam. That’s really hard, in fact large companies and paid services have been born out of that problem and the goal of solving it.

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